Hose-coupling.



G. E. CAMPBELL.

HOSE COUPLING.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. a, 1908.

Patented June 4, 1912.

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TED STATES PAE CHARLES E. CAMPBELL, OF PORTLAND, OREGON, ASSIGNOB T0 SIMON S. KEIM, OF

NEWBERG, OREGON.

HOSE-COUPLING.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented June 4, 19i2.

Application filed December 3, 1908. Serial No. 465,892.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. CAMP- BELL, a citizen-of the United "States, and a resident of Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hose-Couplings, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings. as constituting a partthereof.

This invention relates to means for attaching a hose to a faucet, or for coupling two pieces of hose together, and'lt has for its object to provide inexpensive devices for that purpose which are adapted to permit the coupling and uncoupling to be rapidly done; and to this end embodies the specific features hereinafter fully described and claimed. 1

In the drawings: Figure 1' shows a faucet provided with a nipple adapted to have my coupling applied thereto, such application being illustrated in this figure, the hose-coupling being shown in section; Fig. 2 shows the discharge-end of an ordinary faucet provided with an'exterior thread to have a common hose-coupling aflixed thereon, and said faucet is, in this instance, shown as provided with a removable nipple adapted to receive my hose-coupling; Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on line m-zv of Fig. 1, with the sleeve-member removed; Fig. 4 is a section on line yy of Figs. 1 and 5,1001;- ing in the directions pointed by the arrows;

and Fig. 5 is-a longitudinal section of my.

invention applied to a hose-coupling.

Referring now to the letters in the several views: In the example of a faucet shown in Fig. 1, the spout thereof is adapted to have my hose-couplin aflixed thereon, and

to this end is provide with opposite flange portions a, a, separated by recesses b, 6; see Fig. 3. The upper surfaces of the flangeportions a, a are mclined planes having approaches a, c at opposite ends for the purpose hereinafter specified. Under the flange-portions a, (1' 1s provided an annular groove 03, in which to receive an elastic ring 6. The lower portion, f, of the spout constitutes a nipple. The latter is made tapering or cone-shaped and is preferably ground so as to make a tight jo1nt with its companion sleeve-member. 'When my coupling 15 to be applied to a faucet of the common type, provided with a nipple having a com-. mon thread 9, I screw on the complementary-spout, n, of the faucet anipple-part 11, shown in Fig. 2, which in its exterior form is the same as that shown in Fig. 1, and by its use the common faucet is adapted to have my coupling secured thereon.

In Fig. 5 the nipple-part of my hose-coupling is shown as provided with a neck a, so as to have the end of a hose aflixed thereon as usual; the construction of the nipplepart of my-coupling being otherwise identical with that shown in Figs. 1 and 2-. The. companion-member of my coulping consists of a sleeve j, made with an integral neck 7' of the usual construction, and provided with a peripheral flange is, recessed at opposite sides to receive spring-hooks Z, Z', which age secured in place by screws m; the cut-out portion in the flange k providing a seat for more rigidly holding the hook-members Z, Z

in place. The interior face, j of the sleevemember 7' is joint with scribed.

The operation of my coupling is as folthe nipple-member above deround to make a close-fitting v lows: To aflix the sleeve coupling-member on the nipple coupling-member, the hooks Z, Z of the former are pushed through the recesses of the flange-portions a, a of the joint. To uncouple, all required to be done is to give the sleeve-coupling 7', a reverse turn, so as to again bring the heads of the hook-members Z, Z in alinement with the recesses 6,-6, and thereupon the sleeve-couplin may be'removed. The rapidity with Wlllll the couplin and uncoupling acts can be performed 1s so f evident. I claim: 1. In a hose coupling,a. nipple-like male part adapted to be aflixed to the spout of a faucet, said nipple provided with a coneshaped'spout and further provided with oppositely located peripheral flanges spaced apart, the upper faces of said flanges formed with inclined planes, a gasket affixed on the spout of the male art directly under its to engage with said inclined planes of the said flanges,- and a emale part adapted to be inserted in a hose end and having a correspondin cone-shaped aperture, spring .hook-mem rs on the exterior of said female part in position to be inserted between and to be inserted between and to engage with said inclined planes of the flanges of the male part.

3. In a hose coupling, a nipple-like male part, said nipple} provided with a coneshaped spout and further provided with oppositely located peripheral flanges spaced apart, the upper faces of said flanges formed with inclined planes, a gasket affixed on the male part directly under its said flanges; and a female part adapted to be inserted in a hose end and having a corresponding cone-shaped aperture, spring hook-members on the exterior of said female part in position to be inserted between and to engage with said inclined planes of the flanges of themale part.

4 CHARLES E. CAMPBELL. Witnesses I vT. J. GEIsLnn, S. M. PHILBRICK. 

